
Days & Times:
Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 2 pm
Saturday, 10/11 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm
No performance Thursday, 9/25
In the Barn
Seating is in-the-round and General Admission; the house opens 30 minutes prior to curtain.
Price: $40, 25 and under $25
By Mark Doherty
Music by Jim Doherty
Directed by Alison Weller
Summary
Trad is the hilarious and poignant Irish play about a son, 100-year-old Thomas, and his even older Da, who set off on a quest to find the son that Thomas thinks he fathered 70 years ago. After all that time on earth, they want to know if the family line will survive. An award-winning comedy by Mark Doherty that keeps you laughing all the way to an unexpected finale.
Winner of the prestigious Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Trad is being presented in the Barn.
A NOTE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS:
Although this event in the Barn is general admission we will reserve seats for our subscribers.
If you’ve already chosen your date for this show, please call us to make sure you get your choice of seating.
If you haven’t reserved your date yet, please call the box office soon! We’ll work with you to ensure you get seats you’ll be happy with: (508) 896-1888.
MEET MARK DOHERTY, PLAYWRIGHT OF TRAD
Mark Doherty is a writer and performer, with a wealth of experience from stand-up to clowning to acting, as well as writing for radio, television, stage and screen.
Radio credits as writer include Stand-up Sketches and The Bees of Manulla for RTE, and The O’ Show for BBC 4. Tv and film credits include A Film with Me in It, Death of a Superhero (starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Couched and Soupy Norman (with Barry Murphy), and Time Trumpet, with Armando Iannucci. Other film and tv credits as actor include The Hardacres (Ch.5), Leonard and Hungry Paul, Lies We Tell, Handsome Devil, Red Rock, Moone Boy, The Runway, Love/ Hate, Miranda Hart Unwrapped (BBC) and Father Ted (Ch 4).
Theatre credits include Lunch, by Steven Berkoff, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Endgame, and The Hostage and The Government Inspector, both at the Abbey.
Trad premiered at Galway Arts Festival in 2004, then transferred to the Dublin Theatre Festival. In 2005, it won a Fringe First at Edinburgh, and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Best Theatre Writing Award. Bees, a play for kids, premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2015. And in 2024, Mark’s adaptation of The Summer I Robbed a Bank (David O’Doherty) played at Everyman Theatre, Cork.
Mark is currently filming the second series of the Ch.5 period drama, The Hardacres.
SEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR TRAD:
Cast
* Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Creative
Reviews
Cape Cod Chronicle Review: Cape Rep’s ‘Trad’ A Hilarious Irish Comedy
Behind the Scenes
Trad director Alison Weller had a nice conversation with Arts writer Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll for The Provincetown Independent: